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Update from the Lemmy developers after the reddit blackout.

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What is Lemmy?

From Lemmy's website:

Lemmy is a selfhosted, federated social link aggregation and discussion forum. It consists of many different communities which are focused on different topics. Users can post text, links or images and discuss it with others. Voting helps to bring the most interesting items to the top. There are strong moderation tools to keep out spam and trolls. All this is completely free and open, not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms.

Federation is a form of decentralization. Instead of a single central service that everyone uses, there are multiple services that any number of people can use.

A Lemmy website can operate alone. Just like a traditional website, people sign up on it, post messages, upload pictures and talk to each other. Unlike a traditional website, Lemmy instances can interoperate, letting their users communicate with eac

Here are some communities to subscribe to on other instances:

• Tech → [email protected]
• News → [email protected]
• Gaming → [email protected]
• Memes → [email protected]
• Privacy → [email protected]
• FOSS → [email protected]
• Music → [email protected]
• Books → [email protected]
• LGBT → [email protected]
• Nature → [email protected]
• Sports → [email protected]
• Programming → [email protected]

To subscribe to the here, just go up to the search button and search for the community name (the !whatever part) and the hosting instance (the @server.tld part). It should look like this when searching: [email protected]. Give the server a few seconds to fetch the community if it's never been searched for before, and then you can click the community and subscribe in the sidebar.

Because this server is brand new, each search request takes a few seconds for my instance to fetch recent content from the remote instance, however searching for remote communiti